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Livy · History of Rome §37.44.1-37.44.7

Casualties of the Battle and Flight of Antiochus

Passage 1369 of 1770 · Latin

Summary

The casualties of both sides in the Battle of Magnesia are recorded, and the defeated Antiochus III flees to Apamea via Sardis, while surrounding cities and the people of Sardis move to surrender to the Romans.

§37.44.1ad quinquaginta milia peditum caesa eo die dicuntur, equitum tria milia; mille et quadringenti capti et quindecim cum rectoribus elephanti.
About fifty thousand infantry are said to have been slain on that day, and three thousand cavalry; one thousand four hundred were captured, and fifteen elephants with their drivers.
§37.44.2Romanorum aliquot vulnerati sunt; ceciderunt non plus trecenti pedites, quattuor et viginti equites et de Eumenis exercitu quinque et viginti.
Some of the Romans were wounded; there fell no more than three hundred infantry, twenty-four cavalry, and twenty-five from the army of Eumenes.
§37.44.3et illo quidem die victores direptis hostium castris cum magna praeda in sua reverterunt; postero die spoliabant caesorum corpora et captivos contrahebant.
And indeed on that day, the victors, having plundered the enemy's camp, returned to their own with great booty; on the following day, they spoiled the bodies of the slain and collected the prisoners.
§37.44.4legati ab Thyatira et Magnesia ab Sipylo ad dedendas urbes venerunt.
Envoys came from Thyatira and Magnesia ad Sipylum to surrender their cities.
§37.44.5Antiochus cum paucis fugiens, in ipso itinere pluribus congregantibus se, modica manu armatorum media ferme nocte Sardis concessit.
Antiochus, fleeing with a few men, as more gathered to him on the road itself, reached Sardis with a moderate force of armed men around midnight.
§37.44.6inde, cum audisset Seleucum filium et quosdam amicorum Apameam progressos, et ipse quarta vigilia cum coniuge ac filia petit Apameam.
From there, when he had heard that his son Seleucus and certain of his friends had proceeded to Apamea, he himself also, at the fourth watch, set out for Apamea with his wife and daughter.
§37.44.7Xenoni tradita custodia urbis, Timone Lydiae praeposito; quibus spretis consensu oppidanorum et militum, qui in arce erant, legati ad consulem missi sunt.
The custody of the city was entrusted to Xenon, and Timon was placed in charge of Lydia; but when these were set at naught by the common consent of the townsmen and the soldiers who were in the citadel, envoys were sent to the consul.

Notes

  1. 37.44.1ad — Used adverbially before numerals to mean "about" or "approximately."
  2. 37.44.2non plus — Used directly before numerals without the conjunction `quam` ("than") to mean "no more than" or "not more than."
  3. 37.44.7quibus spretis — Ablative absolute with a relative connection (connectio relativa). The relative pronoun `quibus` refers back to Xenon and Timon mentioned in the previous clause.

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Livy, History of Rome §37.44.1-37.44.7. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0914.phi001.humanitext-lat2:37.44.1-37.44.7

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